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- From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:02:42 GMT
- Organization: SGI
- Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Feb20110242@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
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- In-reply-to: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au's message of 19 Feb 1996 02:54:12 GMT
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- In article <4g8ook$bce@mailhub.scitec.com.au> ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) writes:
-
- > Sorry. I had once heard that Ada was more complicated than C. However, as
- > many people have posted and told me otherwise, I take the comment back.
- >
- > However, I am interested in knowing what the advantages and disadvantages C/C++
- > and Ada (or Ada 95) languages have over each other, without having to buy a
- > book on Ada (as I am unlikely to use it in my profession), especially for
- > engineering applications.
-
- You've asked two questions, not one: C and C++ are very different
- languages. C and C++ both have strong points and weak points, but you
- definitely should not confuse them.
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- Matt Austern
- SGI: MTI Compilers Group
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